Asylum-seekers accused of 'using navy like NRMA'The AustralianPEOPLE-SMUGGLERS are treating the Australian navy "like the NRMA", officials fear, as an asylum boat makes its way towards Christmas Island under escort after a mayday call made closer ...

The Australian immigration minister Chris Bowen told the local media, during a press conference in Sydney, that the transferred asylum seekers will remain in a camp in Nauru until their asylum requests are processed on ...

Is there anything more cynical, more opportunistic, more morally reflexive than tabloid journalism? No, probably not. Demonisation has been the name of the game in the tabloid treatment of the asylum seeker issue.

'..........In an individual, that sort of intellectual inconsistency would border on the clinical. In a newspaper, it's just the trademark cynicism of the trade. That we lap it up is the biggest crying shame of all.'

Why do asylum seekers risk their lives and that of their loved ones by travelling through unkown and often dangerous territories and then risk their lives in rough seas to travel to Australia by boat?

'Our most significant finding ...........was that material living conditions were not the greatest concern of the individuals we interviewed. Rather most of their very real suffering and despair was caused by:

1. being deprived of the sense of purpose and dignity which work provides,2. seeing their children miss out on education and hence the opportunities which education provides, and3. the sense of being trapped in a homeless limbo: unable to return to their country of origin, having no prospect of settling lawfully in Indonesia (an option which many would have chosen if it had been available), and having little prospect of being resettled in a third country.'

Some of the reasons why Asylum Seekers come to Australia is due to the reason that their country is to dangerous, to find work and to become educated. They come by boat because "all they are risking is their bodies, not their lives. Their lives have already been lost."

'The June parliamentary debate, following record boat arrivals and loss of life at sea, led to surveys conducted for the major dailies. Reporting a Nielsen poll on 2 July, The Age headlined “Most blame government for boat people deadlock”. Almost a week later, Newspoll for the Australian produced a different result: “All sides damned”.

The failure to consider inconsistent findings, or to explain the trend of opinion, is typical of media discussion of polling on issues other than the standing of political parties and their leaders, which are tracked almost weekly from one election to the next.'

A very interestigng article discussing people's views on the issue of Asylum seekers. The surveys that were conducted find that some people were confused and uncertain. This proves to me that some people might feel this way because they don't know much about the issue and need to be educated about it

With Australia facing a record influx of asylum-seekers arriving by sea, Canberra last month announced plans to send them to Nauru and Papua New Guinea's Manus Island in a policy aimed at stemming the flow.

September 17th, 2012 tbcsrilanka. Australia's Minister of Immigration and Citizenship Chris Bowen MP, announced Friday that Australia had commenced off-shore processing of asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat.

As the Refugee Council points out in its response to the panel's document, this means there are now no guarantees that those asylum seekers taken to offshore locations will be treated according to international law on ...

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